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sweet, sad, perfect, broken. do yourself a favor and read this book soon.
High school is never easy, but sometimes you make a connection that changes your whole perspective and makes an awful situation better. Also, do you remember discovering some of your favorite music? The first time you heard that fantastic album, where you were and who first played it for you? This book transports you back to that kind of time. This book is endearing and inspiring and frustrating and maddening.
I didn't want it to end. ...more
I didn't want it to end. ...more
There is much to like about this quirky love story. My favorite character? The Korean hairdresser mom.
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Dear Reader,
I read this a while ago, but it's taken me some time to get around to writing a review. I guess because I didn't love OR hate it, really, so my dispassion helped me avoid considering it really at all. I actually did LOVE reading it, weirdly enough. It was an engaging story which I couldn't stop listening to. The audiobook was read by two different voices (Eleanor's and Park's) and it was well done by both the (I think they were) teenaged readers. The story was really in ...more
Dear Reader,
I read this a while ago, but it's taken me some time to get around to writing a review. I guess because I didn't love OR hate it, really, so my dispassion helped me avoid considering it really at all. I actually did LOVE reading it, weirdly enough. It was an engaging story which I couldn't stop listening to. The audiobook was read by two different voices (Eleanor's and Park's) and it was well done by both the (I think they were) teenaged readers. The story was really in ...more
Liked it, especially at the beginning when Park hands her a stack of comics every morning on the bus. Also appreciated when he fought Steve for teasing Eleanor to make it stop. The best part was the acknowledgment that he was partly doing it out of chivalry, and partly out of embarrassment. I was glad for the climax of the book, though I wish the ending was explored just a bit more.
I'm really happy I live in a democratic country with free speech, because otherwise I may be afraid to say that this book was absolutely boring and predictable. The conflict didn't have enough build up, the resolution was unsatisfactory. I honestly feel like I wasted my time. I didn't get all the feels everyone else moaned about when telling me I just HAD to read this book. I have totally not fallen in love with Rainbow Rowell's imagination. It gets two stars for the excellent musical references
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I'm glad this made it into the Tournament of Books, because I was unlikely to pick it up after Fangirl was so hugely not for me. It still wasn't perfect - is it just rude as hell to say that Rainbow Rowell writes like you'd expect somebody named Rainbow Rowell to write like? - but if the writing is sentimental, the plot isn't. While it was highly distracting for me to try to understand how their romance developed when Eleanor's homelife was clearly untenable, I liked the ending a lot. And I thin
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This book wasn't written for me. But 14 year old me would have stayed up all night with a flashlight reading it.
I want my daughter to read this book when she's 13/14 so she knows that all those feelings she's having are perfectly normal and she's not alone. I want her to read it so she learns not to judge people - that she may think someone is weird, but that they may have their reasons, like Eleanor. I want her to read it to learn that abuse is not ok, and that you can be strong enough to get o ...more
I want my daughter to read this book when she's 13/14 so she knows that all those feelings she's having are perfectly normal and she's not alone. I want her to read it so she learns not to judge people - that she may think someone is weird, but that they may have their reasons, like Eleanor. I want her to read it to learn that abuse is not ok, and that you can be strong enough to get o ...more
Oh I loved this. The story of two misfits fitting together in really ambiguous high-school circumstances. It's honest and kind-hearted and lovely.
It's one of the most frequently banned or challenged books from 2012, and I see why -- lots of sex, lots of very disturbing implications of violence, lots of implications that adults do not have a clue what is going on in the world -- and of course it's exactly the kind of book you'd want a teen trying to navigate his/her way in the world to read. Tota ...more
It's one of the most frequently banned or challenged books from 2012, and I see why -- lots of sex, lots of very disturbing implications of violence, lots of implications that adults do not have a clue what is going on in the world -- and of course it's exactly the kind of book you'd want a teen trying to navigate his/her way in the world to read. Tota ...more
It was brilliant.
It reminded me what it was like to be a teenager in love in the eighties.
The characters were real. The feelings were realer. Again, this was really brilliant.
It reminded me what it was like to be a teenager in love in the eighties.
The characters were real. The feelings were realer. Again, this was really brilliant.
3.5 stars
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